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Topic: Navigation device for robot (Read 2645 times)

hi..i'm a noob here....play with robotics some years ago but haven touch it for a long time.but now i'm going back at it any planning to take it to the next lvl,since i was only playing with lego mindstormsets, micromouse and some pack-bots.....ok...back tothe topic...

i wan to build this robot that can travel to a pre-defined location automatically and at the same time avoid obstacles in its way and dont get lost half way.

Have ideas but dun really know how to do it and wad parts i need and where to get them.

i'm thinking of using GPS to navigate the robot and having a sonar ring to help it avoid obstacles or build a robot that cna read maps--so i can load the area map into the robot then have the robot move to the pre-defined location itself.

the first link did help by giving some ideas of how to apply GPS.however, as i'm totally new to using GPS to navigate a robot, guess i'll probably take some time to figure out how to use it.but still, it helped. thanks.

the robot is for both urban,cross-country terrain(of course i'll start with just urban if it's easier)

obstacle are like buildings, cars..etc for urban terrain and trees, rocks, etc for cross-country.

budget wise, cos i'm army funded, is not so much of an issue cos as long as i can show some results, i can ask for an increase in budget...